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Posted On: Feb 24, 2010
Background Reporting to the UNDP Administrator in her capacity as UNDG Chair, the Director has the overall responsibility to lead and manage the global UN Millennium Campaign in realizing its mandate from 2010-15. The UN Millennium Campaign is an inter-agency initiative created by the UN Secretary-General in 2002. The mandate of the Campaign is to create the political will required for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, within the broader remit of the Millennium De...
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Posted On: Feb 01, 2010
The Stanley Foundation seeks a Program Associate for a 24-month limited-term position to work in support of the foundation’s overall goal of promoting principled multilateralism in international affairs, which is at the core of all foundation programming. In particular, this position will involve: * Substantive and administrative support work for the Stanley Foundation’s various policy and outreach activities on US foreign policy and global security issues. * Support of the Stanley Foun...
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Posted On: Jan 28, 2010
Michael Edwards, who many community members may recognize from his work with the Ford Foundation's Governance and Civil Society Program, has published a book refuting the notion that a market approach will fix social problems. In Small Change: Why Buisness Won't Save the World, Edwards argues that the "operating values" of business are inadquate to address the root causes of major social ills. See the attached flyer for more details.
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Posted On: Jan 21, 2010
In a briefing on January 21, 2010, Sue Veres Royal, co-director of U.S. in the World, presented recent findings about effective messaging for advocates working on human rights in the context of national security. The presentation, with the presenter's notes, are attached.
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Posted On: Jan 19, 2010
This memo aims to reinforce the strategic logic of the Topos Partnership's research (including by highlighting selected findings) and to reinforce connections between the research findings and the work of the National Security and Human Rights Campaign, with special attention to bridging some of the initial "disconnects" that seem to be coming up for advocates who have started to grapple with the implications of the research.
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Posted On: Jan 12, 2010
Senior Advocacy Strategist - Washington DCHuman Rights First (HRF), an organization that builds respect for human rights and the rule of law to help ensure the dignity to which everyone is entitled and works to stem intolerance, tyranny, and violence, seeks a new Senior Advocacy Strategist.For more than 30 years, HRF has worked in the United States and abroad to create a more secure and humane world by advancing justice, human dignity and respect for the rule of law.HRF protects people at ris...
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Posted On: Jan 07, 2010
written by Robert A. LevyRobert A. Levy is chairman of the Cato Institute.Added to cato.org on January 7, 2010This article appeared in the on January 7, 2010. New York Daily NewsFollowing bitter defeats in California, Maine, and New York, the gay and lesbian community has a New Year's victory to celebrate. New Hampshire joins four other states — Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts and Vermont — in legalizing gay marriage. And the nation's capital is also onboard. Washington Mayor Adrian Fen...
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Posted On: Jan 06, 2010
DATE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2009 MR. LYNN: Thanks very much, Nancy. Nancy had a way of working with Senator Kennedy. As you know, he had an unforgettable speaking style. Face reddened and fist pounding-that Boston Brahmin accent. You might think that all came naturally, and usually it did. But occasionally, on one topic or another, he might lag a bit. And Nancy would anticipate that. You have to remember, on the Senate floor, there's nobody there, so there's no excitement. So...
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Posted On: Jan 05, 2010
Citizens for Global Solutions (CGS) is seeking to appoint an Edward Rawson Government Relations Fellow to work out of its headquarters in Washington, D.C. Citizens for Global Solutions embraces a vision of a world in which nations work together to abolish war, protect our rights and freedoms, and solve the problems facing humanity that no nation alone can solve. To this end, Citizens for Global Solutions educates Americans about our global interdependence, communicates global concerns to...
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Posted On: Jan 05, 2010
A December 2009 report from the Charity and Security Network describes how U.S. nonprofits are hindered from being an ally against violent extremism due to burdensome CTMs.
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Posted On: Dec 23, 2009
by Doug Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Afghanistan is the sort of country which humanitarian-minded people understandably want to "fix." It has become a target of aggressive pro-war activists ranging from neoconservatives who believe in remaking other societies at gunpoint to feminists who believe in waging war to improve the status of women.The latter group belies the common assumption that the Left opposes war. While the Right traditionally resisted imperialistic social engi...
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Posted On: Dec 14, 2009
AS PREPARED SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY RODHAM CLINTONTHE HUMAN RIGHTS AGENDA FOR THE 21ST CENTURYGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYWASHINGTON, DCDECEMBER 14, 2009Â Â Thank you Jasdeep, Dean Lancaster, and President DeGioia for that kind introduction and thank you for having me here today. Â There is no better place than Georgetown University to talk about human rights. President DeGioia, the administration, and the faculty embody the university's long tradition of supporting free expression and free inq...
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Posted On: Dec 02, 2009
Book Forum Wednesday, December 9, 12:00 p.m.                     Featuring the author, Carlos Alberto Montaner; with comments by Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Senior Fellow, Independent Institute. Moderated by Ian Vásquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato InstituteAbout the event - Latin America, though poor, is a part of the West. The institutions, pastimes, intellectual history, languages, and belief systems of the vast majority of Latin Americans are ...
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Posted On: Dec 02, 2009
Policy ForumThursday, December 3, 4:00 p.m.         Featuring Julian Sanchez, Research Fellow, Cato Institute; Gregory Nojeim, Senior Counsel, The Center for Democracy and Technology; Jena Baker McNeill, Homeland Security Policy Analyst, The Heritage Foundation; and Richard Samp, Chief Counsel, Washington Legal Foundation. Moderated by Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato InstituteAbout the event - Congress is presently moving to renew several provisions of the USA...
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Posted On: Oct 15, 2009
 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT Job Title: Field Director Genocide Intervention Network (GI-NET) is changing the way the United States and the international community respond to the world's worst crimes by empowering individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and stop genocide. GI-NET's Field Department recruits, trains and mobilizes American constituents to be effective advocates, messengers, and fundraisers. GI-NET believes that leadership development among our grassroots base is critical t...
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Posted On: Oct 06, 2009
This powerpoint was presented at the September 24 briefing on Human Rights and National Security by U.S. in the World.
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Posted On: Oct 01, 2009
A letter to Mr. Stern from Ambassador Nancy Soderberg, President of the Connect U.S. Fund and former Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, which calls on the Obama Administration to break the deadlock and lead in international negotiations, in order to avoid failure in Copenhagen. The letter highlights this objective as a "financially responsible, moral, and national security imperative for the United States." The details of the letter are informed by key members of...
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Posted On: Sep 30, 2009
The International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICRtoP) is a global network established by civil society organizations to promote and implement the RtoP norm. The ICRtoP Secretariat is hosted by WFM - Institute for Global Policy (WFM-IGP).  For more information on the Coalition and WFM-IGP, please go our websites: www.responsibilitytoprotect.org and www.wfm-igp.org. Location: New ...
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Posted On: Sep 23, 2009
President Barack Obama delivered the attached remarks before the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, Sept. 23.
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Posted On: Sep 18, 2009
In the fall issue of World Policy Journal, from inside the Iranian power elite, Kayhan Barzegar, a senior research fellow at the Center for Middle East Strategic Studies in Tehran, offers the unique perspective of the determination of Iran's leadership to develop a "nuclear capability."Â In a Q&A with the editors, Hans Blix, the veteran International Atomic Energy Agency monitor and strategic thinker, answers some hard questions about whether a move toward a world without nuclear weaponsÂ...